ABSTRACT
Walter Scott wanting in hearty sympathy with his fellow men. He, whose "common sense" was declared to be his leading characteristic by one who knew him most intimately from his boyhood till near the close of his life! He, with whom the peasant at the plough or the turf-digging was will not to exchange a pinch of snuff, pausing from his labor "to hae a crack wi'the Shirra". It is true that people are to be found in all countries, insensible to merit which they cannot appreciate, and envious of all that is superior to them in the social scale. The literary criticisms of the lecturer are not more felicitous than the moral. Scott has done nothing more than summon all the world to witness the last tournament. Nothing is more remarkable in them, than the fidelity with which each character is supported, whether belonging to the upper, the middle, or the lower classes of society.
